Shai was formed at Howard University in Washington D.C. Three of the four members, Marc Gray, Carl Martin, and Darnell Van Rensalier, belonged to the same fraternity, Alpha Phi Alpha, and along with good friend, Garfield A. Bright, decided to take a chance at turning their hobby of singing into a career. Moving to New York City, New York, the foursome tried to secure a record deal, but they couldn't find any takers. With their money running out and their future looking bleak, the members of Shai took a chance on a radio contest that radio station WPGC was sponsoring. They chose to perform a song that Carl Martin wrote, "If I Ever Fall in Love," which they sang a cappella. The song won the contest and began finding airplay on WPGC. Other stations soon followed, and suddenly the record labels came calling. After signing with Gasoline Alley, Shai began putting together its debut album.
"If I Ever Fall in Love" was the first single and peaked at #2 in the U.S. The next two releases from the double-platinum album, "Comforter" and "Baby I'm Yours" both reached #10. The group's next CD was a remix album largely consisting of new versions of their previous hits, which resulted in a revised version of the song "Baby I'm Yours" simply titled "Yours" which peaked at #63. Future efforts fell shy of the Top 40 although the group did briefly reappear there in 1994 with the #34 "The Place Where You Belong" from the Beverly Hills Cop III soundtrack. The group's last charting single was 1996's #89 single "I Don't Wanna Be Alone". Shai is still active releasing such albums as "Destiny" (1999), "Back From The Mystery System: The Love Cycle" (2004), "Love Cycle: Back From The Mystery System" (2007) and "Worldwide (as D-n-G of Shai" (2009). Visit http://www.myspace.com/shaimusicworld their official MySpace.
To Get To Know You
Shai Lyrics
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You are an angel, angel
You look like the answer to all of my prayers
Meet me in heaven, girl I'll see you there
You are a stranger, a stranger
I'm havin' daydreams of us as husband and wife
So tell me what can I do
Just to get next to you
I wonder what I could do
Just to get to know you
What can I do
Just to get next to you
I wonder what I could do
Just to get to know you
You're makin' me crazy, lady
I'm on a mission to meet all your friends
Got to make real sure that I see you again
And again and again and again
I can't let it faze me, baby
I can't let desire and passion control
I want to fall in love with body and soul
So tell me what can I do
Just to get next to you
I wonder what I could do
Just to get to know you
What can I do
Just to get next to you
I wonder what I could do
Just to get to know you
Just to get to know you
Oh, what should I do
To get to know you
Just to get to know you
I would climb the highest mountain side
I'd run around the world
About a thousand times
Just to get to know you
I would climb the highest mountain side
I'd run around the world
About a thousand times
To know you
What can I do
Just to get next to you
I wonder what I could do
Just to get to know you
What can I do
Just to get next to you
I wonder what I could do
Just to get to know you
What can I do
Just to get next to you
I wonder what I could do
Just to get to know you
What can I do
Just to get next to you
I wonder what I could do
Just to get to know you
The lyrics of Shai's song "To Get To Know You" present a story about passion and the longing to connect with someone on a deeper level. The opening lines describe the subject of the song as an angel and the answer to all of the singer's prayers. It's clear that the person is a stranger, but the singer feels like they've known them their entire life. The chorus serves as a refrain from this feeling of desire and the question of what could be done to get to know the person better.
As the song progresses, the singer becomes increasingly enamored with the person and their desire to meet their friends and see them again and again. However, they acknowledge that they cannot let their desire and passion control them and want to fall in love with the person as a whole. The chorus repeated throughout the song serves as a reminder of this desire to connect with the person and the lengths the singer is willing to go to get to know them.
Overall, "To Get To Know You" is a song about the pull of attraction and the desire to connect with someone on a deeper level. It expresses the feeling of longing and the lengths people will go to in order to pursue love.
Line by Line Meaning
This is a story about passion
The song is about intense feelings of desire and love
You are an angel, angel
The person being addressed is seen as someone special, almost heavenly
You look like the answer to all of my prayers
The person's appearance is so moving that the singer sees them as a divine answer to their needs
Meet me in heaven, girl I'll see you there
The singer wants to be with this person so much, that they would go to improbable lengths to be with them
You are a stranger, a stranger
Despite not knowing the person well, the singer feels that there's an unexplainable connection that exists between them
But it feels like I've known you for all of my life
The person's presence is so powerful it feels like they have been in the singer's life forever
I'm havin' daydreams of us as husband and wife
The singer's mind wanders to a world where they are married, and happily so
So tell me what can I do
Just to get next to you
I wonder what I could do
Just to get to know you
The singer is so interested and invested in the person, that they are eager to do anything possible to get closer to them and learn more about them
You're makin' me crazy, lady
I'm on a mission to meet all your friends
Got to make real sure that I see you again
And again and again and again
The person has such romantic power over the singer that they can't stop thinking about them, and feel compelled to see them as much as possible
I can't let it faze me, baby
I can't let desire and passion control
I want to fall in love with body and soul
Despite feeling so strongly about the person, the singer wants to make sure they are still in control of their emotions and not solely driven by physical desire
Just to get to know you
Oh, what should I do
To get to know you
Just to get to know you
The singer is so captivated by the person that they reiterate their desire to learn all they can about them
I would climb the highest mountain side
I'd run around the world
About a thousand times
Just to get to know you
The singer is willing to do anything to get closer to the person, even if it means undertaking extreme challenges
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: CARL E. MARTIN, DARNELL ANDRE VAN RENSALIER, GARFIELD R. BRIGHT JR., MARC D. GAY
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Michael Schuler
This has been my wife's and I song for twenty years!
LegatePrime1
I haven't heard in years, Going to have look for the copy of my CD, I know I have it some where. Hope no-one stole it.